Dredging and offshore company Van Oord says it has closed the turbulent year 2020 with good results, despite the corona crisis hitting some of its markets hard. The company benefited from its many wind energy activities,...Read more
A.P. Møller-Maersk did particularly well in the last three months of 2020 thanks to companies restocking. This led to such a high demand for transport services that global distribution chains are experiencing container shortages. As...Read more
Transshipment in the Amsterdam port declined substantially due to the corona crisis and the energy transition. The port authority Port of Amsterdam reports that in 2020, 74.3 million tonnes were transshipped, fourteen per cent less...Read more
Piracy and armed robbery incidents increased in 2020. The Gulf of Guinea even recorded its highest ever number of crew kidnapped. This was reported by the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB). IMB...Read more
